178 BULLETIN 772, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Perennial, usually low grasses, with creeping stolons or rhizomes, 
short blades, and several slender spikes digitate at the summit of 
the upright flowering stems. Species six, of which three are Aus- 
tralian, one species widely dis- 
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Nee ae tributed in the warmer regions 
\ jf A .. »ot the globe: 
ND. \t i ae Type species: Panicum dacty- 
i \\\/) Ze lon L. 
Capriola Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 31, 
, 2 532. 1763. The genera are indi- 
~ \ f cated and distinguished by Adanson 
YX i Ke ps in a much abbreviated and often un- 
ae ff } fo satisfactory manner. The tabular 
AN Vax waver | 4 arrangement of the genera of Phal- 
Ser” i arides, his first section of the grass 
family or Gramina, includes Cap- 
Iie, 105.--Bermuda grass, Capriola dactylon. Plant, K 4; Spikelet and two views of 
floret, X 5. 
viola, with the following diagnosis, interpreting the table: Summit of leaf sheath 
hairy ; flowers in digitate spikes; glumes laterally compressed ; lemma awnless. 
In the index there is given aS a synonym under Capriola, ‘“‘Gramen dactylon 
Offic.” he last phrase appears in the first edition of the Species Plantarum * 
in the synonymy under Panicum dactylon as “ Gramen dactylon, radice repente. 
s. officinarum. Scheuch. gram. 104,” thus connecting Capriola Adans. with 
Panicum dactylon. , 
Cynodon Rich.; Pers., Syn. Pl. 1: 85. 1805. Only one species described, CO. dac- 
tylon, based on Panicum dactylon L. 
The only species in North America is Capriola dactylon (1..) 
Kuntze (fig. 105), commonly known as Bermuda grass. This is a 
= 
1L., Sp. Pl. 58. 1753. 
